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ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 02:43PM Pfost William B (William Pfost ci irs gov) (4 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 09:28PM Todd Woodward (todd_woodward symantec com) (2 replies) Re: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 07:24PM Rob DeWitt (diggertadmin gmail com) (1 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 08:53PM David Harley (david a harley gmail com) (2 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 09:17PM William Holmberg (wholmberg amdpi com) (1 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 11 2007 11:41AM David Harley (david a harley gmail com) (1 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 14 2007 07:43PM William Holmberg (wholmberg amdpi com) (1 replies) Re: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 14 2007 09:16PM Dave Mangot (dmangot terracottatech com) (1 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 14 2007 09:41PM William Holmberg (wholmberg amdpi com) (1 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 09:10PM Dixon, Wayne (wcdixo aurora lib il us) (2 replies) Re: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 11 2007 10:16AM Radoslav Dejanoviæ (radoslav dejanovic opsus hr) (1 replies) Re: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 06:50PM Roland Dobbins (rdobbins cisco com) (1 replies) RE: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 07:35PM Pfost William B (William Pfost ci irs gov) (1 replies) Re: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 08:09PM Rob DeWitt (diggertadmin gmail com) (2 replies) Re: ClamXav for OS X 10.4 Aug 10 2007 09:22PM Kevin Finisterre \(lists\) (kf_lists digitalmunition com) (1 replies) |
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On Aug 10, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Todd Woodward wrote:
>> Has anyone tried this application?
>> Any comments to share? Would anyone recommend it versus another OS X
> antivirus application?
>
> My subjective experience with ClamAV and it's ClamXav version for
> Mac OS
> X is that it's fine for a free manual/scheduled/user-level malware
> scanner. For example, Apple uses it scanning email in Mac OS X Server
> Tiger.
>
> However, it does not do on-demand/event/trigger/kernel-level scanning
> for inspection of files as they are created/modified etc. on a file
> system.
Nor does it perform any repair on files. Of course, repair isn't
always successful, but it typically is in Office macro viruses, which
we *so* see often on the Mac (even in the simple role of being
carriers)....and that's important for typical end users.
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Edward Marczak
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